Re: [trinity-devel] KDESU

From: David C. Rankin <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> Subject: Re: [trinity-devel] KDESU To: trinity-devel(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Date: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 7:14 PM On 02/26/2011 06:57 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote: access like Ubuntu. address the issues. Darrell,   If this is your box (and not one at work), you might try a /etc/pam.d/su fix that allows members of the wheel group (normal sudo group) to use su without having to enter a password. I find it very useful. After adding yourself to the wheel group (either 'groupmod -A user wheel' or gpasswd -a user wheel' depending on the distro), then in /etc/pam.d/su, (add or uncomment) the following: auth            sufficient      pam_wheel.so trust use_uid auth            required        pam_wheel.so use_uid   If you have public/private key access setup to a box and you want to be able to run remote X apps as root (kate/kwrite for remote config) you can also add the following to pam.d/su: session         optional        pam_xauth.so   There was also an old hack to use sudo instead of su for KDE admin access (it worked fine as well). In Trinity from the command line in konsole/xterm or in alt+f2, just enter the following: kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command sudo   That simply creates an entry in ~/.kde3/share/config/kdesurc containing the following: [Passwords] Keep=true [super-user-command] super-user-command=sudo   If kdesu isn't working then give that a try. If it works - great, if it doesn't, then just delete kdesurc :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messsages on the Web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting